5 ways to make your wife smile: #1 leave her love notes

I told him not to buy me anything for Valentine’s this year. Just to write me a love letter. He liked the idea but his schedule was uncooperative. That was a month ago.

This morning I stumble into the bathroom pre-contact lenses and peer at an envelope that seems to have found it’s way onto the shelf next to the sink. My head is fuzzy from nearly five days of him being driven by the deadlines of work and me parenting solo. Thursday is our goal.

On Thursday we get his head and schedule back again. We’re living for Thursday.

But today is just Tuesday.

Micah and Zoe are still asleep and Jackson’s camped out already in front of either the Power Rangers or the Lynx. I have a bath in mind. A bath before anyone else wakes up. I reach over to run the water and wonder why a piece of junk mail has made it into the bathroom.

I squint at it.

Micah has an affection for writing on scraps of paper and leaving them breadcrumb like behind him. But this isn’t from Micah.

In the dark between shower and leaving for work he made me a gift.

I stand and hold this precious piece of junk mail for a long time. I trace my finger over the familiar loops and flourishes he makes of my name.

What a sweetheart! We do the same thing for Valentines Day. We usually don’t get each other anything (plus our anniversary is on the 10th so we have just celebrated) but try to give each other more of a heart gift. :)

Hey, Lisa-Jo – meet Holly – one terrific mom of 4, wife to an overworked college professor and memorizer of scripture par excellence. One of my favorite real-life young-mom friends.

And thank you for this lovely reminder that it is the small, the personal, the care-full things that make the tougher days bearable.

I’d say you both chose very well indeed.

(I read yesterday’s while I was here….and I’m betting he did, too. That was as gorgeous as this one. Cherry blossom laps, eh? Pretty spectacular! Have I told you lately I think you are just terrific? Well, you are. I’m glad to ‘know’ you in this cyber world.)

Hi Lisa-Jo, I subscribed to your blog awhile ago, now, and link-up to your Five Minute Fridays. Thanks so much! I love reading the tid-bits of your life. I feel like I know you. All of this post made me smile. I love how you wrapped it up…but I especially love that your husband wrote the note on the back of a piece of junk mail (I’m assuming). Totally something my husband would do! And that actually makes it even more special, because you know he probably did it on a whim…a raw piece of his heart!

You gave me shivers, Lisa-Jo. My dear leaves me love notes too. You have a wonderful husband. I love the list, and can attest to #3–tell her to take a nap. I came down with a 24-hour bug yesterday and my hubby came home and took charge of the little one. With a few breaks for nursing her I slept almost 12 hours and woke feeling refreshed.

So romantic and sweet!. My husband also wrote me notes or just picked a flower from the garden and put it in front of my bed. When I opened my eyes early morning first thing I see was this precious gift from him!

love, love, love. it’s like the love note my hubby gave me…he worked late all week and had business meetings all weekend. i was stuck shuttling three kids to baseball practices and games in three different places. friday night we went to bed really late, exhausted from everything, and then i remembered that the dishes that still needed to be washed. saturday morning, he had to be at work by 7:30, which meant he had to get up earlier than normal. I woke up to find all the dishes in the dish rack, sparkling clean. it made my day. =) especially since work has consumed so much of his time, i hate to ask him to do more when he gets home.

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